Salinas Sports Hall of Fame

Doug Chandler 

Known as one of the most versatile motorcycle racers of the 1980s and 1990s, Chandler was inducted into the American Motorcycle Association Hall of Fame in 2006. The North Salinas High grad was the 1983 AMA Rookie of the Year and only one of four riders in history to win the AMA Grand Slam by scoring national wins in the mile, half-mile, short track, Tourist Trophy and road race. He spent four years on the Grand Prix circuit. Chandler won the wild and wooly 1987 San Jose Mile and the 1990, 1996 & 1997 AMA Superbike titles.